BioHackathon 2025

2025-06-10

CINI Young-InfoLife, RSG-Italy, and Young BITS invite you to the "First International Biohackathon of BITS", an exciting team-based bioinformatics challenge in collaboration with the BITS 2025 conference in Naples and the HPC4AI computing center of the University of Turin.

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📅 When? 14:00 – June 10, 2025 – A live hackathon on the eve of BITS 2025 (June 11–13)

📍 Where? Faculty of Biotechnology, Via Tommaso De Amicis, 95, 80131 Naples, Italy

🔎 The challenge: Get ready to dive into single-cell RNA-seq data analysis! The exact theme was revealed during the in-person event.

📝 Registration: [Closed] – Thank you to everyone who registered and participated!

👥 Participants were grouped into diverse teams combining different backgrounds, skills, and institutions. This approach promoted collaboration, peer learning, and innovative problem-solving.

🏆 🎉 Winners Announcement

We’re thrilled to announce the two winning teams of the First International BioHackathon of BITS-2025:

  • 🥇 Team 6: Andrea Ninni, Gospel Ozioma Nnadi, Romane Gauthier, Thomas Grant – with a special mention for Clustering Accuracy;
  • 🥇 Team 7: Antonella Cruoglio, Beatrice Nuvolari, Emanuela ScafuriI, Sandro Gepiro Contaldo – with a special mention for Reproducibility.

Congratulations to all participants for your creativity, collaboration, and technical excellence!
Thank you for making this first edition a real success!

🧠 Awards & Symposium
The awards ceremony took place during the closing session of BITS 2025, on June 13.
In the afternoon, don’t miss the special joint symposium organized by CINI Young-InfoLife, RSG-Italy, and Young BITS, highlighting the next generation of researchers in bioinformatics.

💻 Prepare yourself!
Before the competition, we hosted live-streamed webinars — all available on the Young-Infolife YouTube channel:
🎥 https://www.youtube.com/@younginfolife

📅 Webinar Schedule:

  • April 1 – Reproducibility, containerization, and HPC usage
  • April 15 – Single-cell RNA-seq: wet lab protocol and quality control
  • April 29 – Single-cell RNA-seq: computational methods (part 1)
  • May 13 – Single-cell RNA-seq: computational methods (part 2)
  • May 27 – Q&A + spoiler session

🔥 Let’s keep building this community together!
Thank you all again — and see you at the next BioHackathon!

BioHackathon

Speakers: Simone Pernice, Giacomo Baruzzo, Giulia Cesaro, Ramona Palombo, Federica Rossi, Vincenzo Bonnici, Eva Viesi, Simone Avesani, Luca Alessandrì, Sofia Borgato.
Organizers: Luca Alessandrì, Giulia Cesaro, Simone Pernice, Matteo Pallocca, Federica Rossi, Ramona Palombo, Mirko Treccani, Giacomo Baruzzo, Salvatore Calderaro, Eva Viesi, Elena Grassi, Sofia Borgato, Laura Veschetti.
Online streamers: Salvatore Calderaro